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This document discusses the history of computers from their early development through different generations. It provides background information on influential early computers like the Analytical Engine, ENIAC, and UNIAC. The text then presents multiple choice questions to test knowledge of computer pioneers, technologies used in each generation of computers, and acronyms related to important early computers.
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Computer History and Generations Questions

This document discusses the history of computers from their early development through different generations. It provides background information on influential early computers like the Analytical Engine, ENIAC, and UNIAC. The text then presents multiple choice questions to test knowledge of computer pioneers, technologies used in each generation of computers, and acronyms related to important early computers.
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Computer History and Generations

Questions (Set #5, Page #1)


This section contains Multiple Choice Questions and Answers on Computer
Development History and Computer Generations. Here we will learn about
computers, their developers, technologies used in different computer
generations, usages etc.

List of Questions on Computer History and


Generations
1) What was the name of first computer designed by Charlse Babbage?

1. Analytical Engine
2. Difference Engine
3. Colossus
4. ENIAC

2) Which was the first electronics digital programmable computing


device?

1. Analytical Engine
2. Difference Engine
3. Colossus
4. ENIAC

3) EDSAC stands for __________.

1. Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator


2. Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer
3. Electronic Data Storage Automatic Calculator
4. Electronic Data Storage Automatic Computer

4) EDVAC stands for __________.

1. Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Calculator


2. Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer
3. Electronic Data Variable Automatic Calculator
4. Electronic Data Variable Automatic Computer
5) Which was the first commercial computer?

1. Ferranti Mark 1
2. Analytical Engine
3. Difference Engine
4. Colossus

6) UNIAC stands for __________.

1. Universal Automatic Calculator


2. Universal Native Input Automatic computer
3. Universal Native Input Automatic calculator
4. Universal Automatic Computer

7) ENIAC stands for __________.

1. Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer


2. Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator
3. Electronic Numerical Integrator Automatic Computer
4. Electronic Numerical Integrator Automatic Calculator

8) John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert are the inventors of __________


computer.

1. UNIAC
2. ENIAC
3. EDSAC
4. Ferranti Mark 1

9) Who invented the punch card?

1. Charles Babbage
2. Semen Korsakov
3. Herman Hollerith
4. Joseph Marie Jacquard

10) In the late __________, Herman Hollerith invented data storage on


punched cards that could then be read by a machine.

1. 1860
2. 1900
3. 1890
4. 1880

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References

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDVAC
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computing_hardware
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punched_card

11) Which electronic components are used in First Generation Computers?

1. Transistors
2. Integrated Circuits
3. Vacuum Tubes
4. VLSI Microprocessor
5. ULSI Microprocessor

12) Which electronic components are used in Second Generation


Computers?

1. Transistors
2. Integrated Circuits
3. Vacuum Tubes
4. VLSI Microprocessor
5. ULSI Microprocessor

13) Which electronic components are used in Third Generation


Computers?

1. Transistors
2. Integrated Circuits
3. Vacuum Tubes
4. VLSI Microprocessor
5. ULSI Microprocessor
14) Which electronic components are used in Fourth Generation
Computers?

1. Transistors
2. Integrated Circuits
3. Vacuum Tubes
4. VLSI Microprocessor
5. ULSI Microprocessor

15) Which electronic components are used in Fifth Generation Computers?

1. Transistors
2. Integrated Circuits
3. Vacuum Tubes
4. VLSI Microprocessor
5. ULSI Microprocessor

16) ENIAC Computer belongs to __________.

1. First Generation Computers


2. Second Generation Computers
3. Third Generation Computers
4. Fourth Generation Computers

17) VLSI Stands for __________.

1. Very Large Storage Integration


2. Very Large Storage Integrator
3. Very Large Scale Integration
4. Very Large Scale Integrator

18) ULSI Stands for __________.

1. Ultra Large Storage Integration


2. Ultra Large Scale Integration
3. Ultra Large Storage Integrator
4. Ultra Large Scale Integrator

19) __________ is used as a programming language in first generation


computers?

1. FORTRAN
2. COBOL
3. BASIC
4. Machine Language

20) FORTRAN stands for __________.

1. For Translation
2. Format Transformation
3. Fork Transformation
4. Formula Translation

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